Cases

Dear Ocaders; Please advise on this case. thanks Lucas ppt-1.pptx

Hi all, Our peds orthopedists have informed us that they are seeing high number of referrals for uncovered femoral heads/shallow acetabulum in older children and young adults, in which the hips are normal. On the other hand, we have orthopedists who tell us we are under calling and missing the under coverage of the femoral

Radiology/healthcare systems are connected through HL7 (or FHIR), which allows for transfer of data between applications. This can be used in scenarios like these where the tech can type in a few words summarizing the patient history (including chronicity of injury, chief complaint, past medical/surgical hx and more) and send that to PACS/EMR. This information

I find markers a mixed blessing. If placed over a superficial lesion they can distort it and affect fat sat. Also obliterates muscle hernias. I made a form for my techs to fill in with each patient as the orthos often write their diagnosis and not the symptoms on the referral. Challenge was to get

Best to place a marker by techs on the painful or palpable swelling site. Here is an article we had published www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5732387/ I find marker incredibly useful. We also have the luxury of electronic health records and our hip and knee guys have functional scores along with a diagram with patient pointing to the pain

Hi everyone, I’m looking for a way to have the techs write down some meaningful patient information without adding to their workload too much. Specifically, I’m thinking of a form where the tech (or maybe the patient) can mark the localization of pain on an anatomic drawing (either a drawing of a body, or –